Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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Yes, this week makes two years of blogging for The Earthian Hivemind – two years I’ve enjoyed a lot and had the opportunity to get to know amazing people online, especially fellow bloggers. They contributed to make this experience positive under…
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Broken Angels (2003) is a SF dystopian novel by Richard K. Morgan, and the sequel of Altered Carbon, by many considered the cyberpunk of the new century. Set up fifty years after the events of the first novel, the controversial hero…
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Do you remember the claim that Jupiter is somehow a failed star? Well, this time it seems we have finally found a star that behaves in the same way, storms included. Have a look at what NASA has published just yesterday….
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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Reading The Leper House it finally occurred to me why I was never fond of the novella format, at least when it’s a stand-alone and not part of a series: when it’s good, it’s always too short, and when it’s bad,…
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Done -yesterday night just in time I finally validated my wordcount: 51,299 – otherwise said, I made it. It has taken a lot of efforts, three trips to the UK Midlands (train is such a perfect place to write, provided you…
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Everybody who has dealt with worldbuilding in SF that involves star systems beyond ours knows what I’m talking about – a lot of resources out there only work with a 2D representation of the cosmos, not a 3D, creating a…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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Speaker for the Dead (1986) by Orson Scott Card, is a SF novel and the sequel of Ender’s Game, even though the events take place long after. It features an universe with human colonies, aliens and ansible-type technology for superluminal…
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